One main difference between Adventists and other Christians is the belief that the church must work closely together with Christ to clear the way for His Second Advent. There is a specific work for the church to do to “prepare the way of the Lord.” In order to fit the church for that work, Christ gives messages and gifts to His church, as He did in the apostolic days.
One of these helps came in the form of a series of message given by two young ministers, Elders Waggoner and Jones, in 1888 at the Minneapolis General Conference session of Seventh-day Adventists. Their message was strikingly different from the common fare, and was identified by Ellen White as the “beginning of the latter rain and loud cry” and as the “message to the Laodiceans.”
This booklet is not about the details of that message. Instead it is about how that message was received back then, and how it is being received today. The burden lays on the church, and on each individual, to make sure he has not rejected the grace of God, as given in His messages to His church.
It was fatal to the Jews to reject Jeremiah’s message when Babylon rose to world-wide power; it was fatal for them to reject Christ’s message when He walked the earth; and it will be fatal for us too if we are guilty of rejecting Christ’s message today. 37p
Contents
- Christ’s Coming Delayed
- The Church Must Play Its Part
- No Fault With God
- A Very Serious Charge
- A Most Precious Message
- Hated by the Ministry
- True Religion Slighted
- Other Witnesses
- A. T. Jones
- W. W. Prescott
- A. G. Daniells
- Taylor G. Bunch
- Ernest D. Dick
- So Widely Recognized
- Satan’s Prime Target
- What has this to do with Us?
- Confession Required
- The General Conference Attitude Today
- Their Determined Refusal to Confess
- What Now?
- Delay No More
